May 28, 2013

It's the first girth strap I make and it's a long time I wait to attempt. The principle is the same I've used on the breastplate: the green skin is too thin for whole padding (and I feared in an odd result, too), so I kept it only for the color accents, much more protected from wear.Detail of the 1" stainless steel buckles stitched on 1" 1/4 elastic band.Here's a detail of its back, too.Making this had been fun and very instructive: I started from the main body, made out from panel hide and neoprene. During the cutting session I had to consider how produce a nice and effective cutout shape.Then I applied the padding, my usual neoprene foam sheet, keeping borders free from that so I could stitch them together in a nice way.After preparing the 4 buckles coupled with elastic band, I made the green details and glued them together with the center stap and assembled all the parts using green thread, as on other items from this set. Once finished, I stitched the two pentagonal "tops" and, voilà! My first girth strap is done!

This is the english translation of my italian blog... Sorry, I'm an italian guy and english's not my first language. Translation is still in progress, older posts are not availabe in english yet but they will come soon!